Thursday, October 20, 2011

Ultimate Pumpkin Bread

I know that we all have a pumpkin bread recipe in our archives but this one
has been my go to Fall bread for years! There is nothing better than the smell of
fresh bread baking in the oven. Of course, you could eat this plain but why would
you? My favorite way to eat it..is to slice and grill and lather with pumpkin spice
cream cheese. Enjoy and Happy Fall!

1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 3 loaf pans.
2) In a large bowl, mix together pumpkin puree, eggs, oil, water and sugar until
well blended. In a separate bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon,
nutmeg, cloves, ginger, pumpkin pie spice. Stir the dry ingredients into the
pumpkin mixture until just blended. Pour into prepared pans.
3) Bake for about 50 minutes in the preheated oven.

OOOO! You just reminded me that I need to make some pumpkin bread! It is pretty much my favorite fall treat...yours looks fantastic, especially with the pumpkin spice cream cheese...I'm getting hungry just thinking about it (c:

I know what I'm making this weekend. This looks fantastic, Val. I've been wanting to find a good pumpkin bread recipe. I love the idea of pumpkin spice cream cheese slathered on top of the bread. Yum! Your photos are beautiful.

Thanks for posting this....I needed a good recipe for pumpkin bread...My oldest son's girlfriends' Mom made some for him and he want me to make him some..Now, I have what looks like a perfect recipe. Thanks!

Gorgeous photo! This could be in a magazine! I love this moist bread but have never heard of your wonderful cream cheese. I can't even imagine how great this would taste. We have to try this for the fall. I think I might eat the cream cheese by the spoonfuls! Thanks a ton.

Be still my heart. There is nothing like an epically delicious pumpkin bread. And how is it that I have yet to make one this year? Clearly, this is something that i need to get a move on. Pronto! Thanks, Val! ~Megan

Hi! This looks awesome. I've never had pumpkin bread but this might be exactly what I've been looking for to bake this week. I'm stealing your recipe but definitely tweaking it a bit to make it gluten free for my bf. thanks! : )

Ok, so I was completely salivating over your pumpkin bread when upon closer examination of your pics- I died!! Those plates!! I love them. And I'm now convinced you must have all that is left of them in the world! I've looked EVERYWHERE for them! I even blogged about it here- http://tuesdayswithdorie.blogspot.com/2011/07/bird-in-one-hand.htmlI'm soo going to make that bread! It looks delish- and especially on those fab plates:)

Yummy! I didn't make the spread and I substituted the 3 1/2 C flour w/ 1 1/2 C whole wheat flour and 2 C whole wheat pastry flour. I also substituted the 3 C sugar w/ 1 C honey and 2 C organic fair trade sugar cane as well as add 2 T wheat germ and 2 T flax seed... we've started trying to make healthy changes to our diet and I'm hesitant to make changes to recipes but this worked very well! It's still sweet and moist and so good!